Cinder Butte Meat Company

This is an excellent local Central Oregon Butcher and meat processing business. It is refreshing to use a local family owned butcher shop that sells locally raised organic beef that supports other local farmers and businesses. I was sold from the first visit and will not buy meat from what has become disgusting big chain retail grocery stores again. We always receive friendly helpful service, and the prices are on par with that of a grocery store as well. Thank you cinder butte!

My husband and I have used Cinder Butte to process our wild game on three different occasions. Our first experience in 2012 was great. They processed our elk meat as we requested. It was very lean and packaged how we asked them to package it. We were pleased.
In 2013 we took our deer to them with some specific requests. This time our experience was less than great. We asked for the back strap, tenderloin and steaks to be packaged like normal and the rest of the deer to be boned out and packaged so we could smoke our own jerky. When we picked up our meat we received the steaks as requested, 10 pounds of meat for jerky and the rest was ground into burger. My husband was very upset… we were looking forward to jerky. When we brought this to their attention, Bob offered us $ 20 off the price. While that was nice, it didn’t change the fact that our deer had been ground up and we couldn’t make the jerky we had been looking forward to.
In 2014 we processed our own deer because of our experience the year before.
This year my husband agreed to give them another try because the weather was warmer and we wouldn’t be able to process both deer ourselves without compromising the meat. So we processed one of our deer ourselves and took the other deer to them on October 5^th and asked that it be processed like normal… steaks, roasts, burger and some breakfast sausage. We picked up our meat on Friday October 9^th and when we put the well frozen packages in the freezer, there was no breakfast sausage. I called that day and was told they would look into it and call me back. We received no phone call. I called back on Monday the 12^th and was told the same thing… they will look into it. My husband received a call on Wednesday, nearly a week later, that our sausage had been located and we could pick it up the next day. Upon arriving to get the sausage on Thursday, the packages were chilled but not frozen. It was evident that they had forgotten to make sausage like we had requested and had given us meat that was not from our deer. We grilled some steaks last night and they were delicious… not gamey and very tender. We cooked some breakfast sausage this morning and we are very disappointed. The meat is obviously not from our deer… it is extremely gamey.
I am disappointed to say that we will not be going back to Cinder Butte. I wish we had had a better experience. We saved some meat from the deer we processed at home this year to be made into pepperoni sticks and summer sausage. Our plan was to take the meat to Cinder Butte this winter and have them make the pepperoni and summer sausage. Looks like I will be researching for another smokehouse to process that. :(

My wife and I moved from Tualatin to Crooked River Ranch a year ago. We quickly lewrned butcher shops are in very short supply in C.O., then we finally stopped by Cinder Butte! Wow! I only rate 5 stars, an A, when a product or service is truly worthy.
The beef is organic, red in color, not pink like in the stores, and marbled, many marbled close to prime grade. Flavor is mild consistent with organic beef. Very juicy and tender consistent with marbled beef. Prices are grocery store level and less!
A steal!
We have tried the baby back ribs. Organic as well. Best tasting ribs ever. Organic pork truly has a much different flavor, more natural pork taste is my guess. Smoked bacon is thick sliced, uncured and delicious.
The brats are exellent: fine ground meat, spiced served in a thin casing. Delicious!
Owner’s Bob and Lori are hands on, work at the shop and great people to work with.
Compare to meat you buy in stores or the few shops in Bend. Cinder Butte is a gem of C.O.

We’ve been in the market to buy a half or quarter of a cow and got this place as a referral from Locavore. We headed up there the other day and stopped in to see what they had. A great selection of meats and prices were really good.
Great service with a knowledgeable staff. They pointed us in the right direction for getting a quarter or a half a cow, but said if we weren’t able to track one down that they could probably do it for us. We got a sampling of the beef that they had to offer. Ground beef, ribeyes and we also got some of their hotdogs and Alpaca of sausage.
We were really pleased with everything we purchased. We will be back again and most definitely will have them help us with getting a cow. If not tracking one down, at least butchering it for us once we find one.

Bob and Lori run a great shop. Honest, folks who are happy to give samples. They also sell retail. Prices are great. We had a cow butchered there and their service was impeccable and timely.